European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d fist fire support system headed to Europe Page 9 what s new in the car world Randy Barnett knows Page 13 today s Dollar buys 2.04 Marks other rates Page 23 utmqb1ieo cob my Ahmed force1vol. 45, no. 125 thursday. August 21, 1986 d 8693 a berserk gunman kills 14, self Edmond okla. A a non Lime postal worker facing dismissal opened fire in a Posl office wednesday morning killing 14 co workers and wounding at least six others before taking his own life police said. The gunman identified b police As Pat Sherrill 44. Was hired last Jear and was about to be fired said  officials. Sherrill was carrying no Liast Ihrck handguns including two ,45-Calibcr a mommies when Hoenl Rcd the Post office through an employees Entrance around6 45 . And opened tire authorities said in addition to the automates Sherrill carried one pistol of unknown Caliper with a Silencer said . Postal service spokesman Lou Eberhart in Washington  surrounded the building and hostage negotiators tried 10 reach Sherrill by Telephone but he did not answer. Fri and police swat teams entered the one Story Brick building at 3 30 . And found the bodies of Sherrill and 14 others. To was the nation s worst attack by a Lone gunman since a rampage at a Mcdonald s restaurant in san Ysidro Calif on july 18, 1984, left 21 people  general Preston r. Tiseth ordered the american Flag flown it half staff at All Post offices in the country to Honor the dead. And. In Edmond about 100 people attended a 25-Minuti noon prayer  of the wounded was listed in Crit ical condition with a neck wound four an unidentified postal employee is comforted by several nun after massacre. A Ponio were in Malik Nortu Lilian and one treated for superficial injuries and Dis charged Hospital officials said. There were about to postal workers inthe building when the shooting started and people just started running said Ron Blackwell. A letter Carrier. Van cd Furlong an eight year employee of the Post office said he was working at a postal tray at his station when he heard a noise like a firecracker. "1 looked Down under my tray and saw one of my goad friends hit the floor with blood coming out of him Furlong  said the gunman had locked some of the doors to the Posl office. My first thought was that someone had dropped a tray Blackwell said. Then somebody said he s got a gun and everyone started running  some of those who fled carried wounded co workers to safely. There were people coming out of every door they could come out of said postal worker Clint  saw a Guy standing there with a bag on his shoulder and a pistol in his hand that s when i turned and ran Turner said. You can bet i la be on my Knees thanking my god  attorney Bob Macy said Bod ies spent can ridges and empty Bullet clips were scattered throughout the building. I be never seen a crime scene like this. I be never seen this volume he  were people shot All through that building which would indicate that he was going through the entire area see gunman on Page 24 Active duty strength May be decreased by Norman Buck a military writer Washington spending for de sense programs could be Cut an addition Al 5.6 percent and thousands of service members could be dismissed if Congress stands by its deficit reduction budget formula officials said tuesday. The 5.6 percent Cut in military spend ing for fiscal 1987, which begins oct. 1, would total about $9.7 billion. Aboutj200 million of that would come from the automatic elimination of Cost of Liv ing increases for military retirees leaving $9.5 billion to be Cut from other Penta gon programs. The reduction would apply to All pro Grams equally and thus could Lead to cuts in Active duty strength As Well As reduced funding for new equipment training. Construction programs such As Mili tary housing and schools and research programs including the president s High priority Star wars program. This year the president had the authority under the Gram a Rud Man Defi Cit reduction Law to protect military Sala Ries and Star wars spending. That authority has lapsed however meaning that the Pentagon could be forced to re lease thousands of soldiers sailors. Marines and airmen from Active duty if the cuts become  g. Penner the director of the congressional budget office said the cuts to the Pentagon budget certainly. Would result in More than a couple of Hundred thousand people  such dismissals would amount to see strength on Page 24 Cut soviets reveal 2nd fir eat chernobyl Moscow a a l. Per wednesday disclosed a fire broke t _., May 23 in the building housing the Cher Nobyl nuclear reactor that was destroyed by an explosion and fire nearly a month earlier. The newspaper Leni Skoye Namya said firefighters were summoned from Asfar As 260 Miles away and had to Lake turns running into a High radiation Rone to pour water on the flames to Stop them from spreading to an Oil storage area. The Blaze look All Day to extinguish it lid. Newspaper a publication of mos cows pfc Junist puny reported inc May 23 Fil Ahe Middle of an article about  at the Cherno Byl nuclear Plant in ii was the first report Flthe May 23 fire. The newspaper said the be broke out in the Early morning in to Wavily damaged building housing the nil see chernobyl on payday shift would give gis one time tax break by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a legislative gimmick to trim about s2.6 billion from the defense department s Mili tary pay accounts could provide a one time tax break for servicemen Bers next year according to a Penta gon compensation official. The House defense authorization Bill passed Friday Calls for a one Day delay in military pay that would shift the budgetary Burden of one payday to the nest fiscal year. Servic members would not lose Uny pay. The shift would simply mean that the payday scheduled for sept. 31, 1987, would move to oct. 1, 1987, the first Day of the new fiscal year. Thai would reduce Federal spend Sao payday on Page 24 Europe s open air museums stripes Magazine